As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThere are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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